Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration makes great promises on civil rights, but it does not perform. Harry Truman himself, as a Senator, voted with the poll-taxers in 1942, the last time the matter came up for a "clear vote" in the Senate: "He voted against lifting the poll-tax restriction even for members of the armed services then fighting for his country." A true friend of civil rights would not press "an all or nothing" program that is sure to be defeated by "uncompromising opposition"; he would, instead, try for "real progress . . . through the methods that can achieve and have achieved results...
Said Engstrom last week at a Chicago conference: "Electronics, with its unlimited ability to count, remember and control ... is ... literally asking to take over certain duties which have been performed by men's minds-thinking processes. What man can conceive, comprehend and perform, he will be able to construct in electronic systems to do his bidding, and the electronic performance will be at least as effective as the human performance . . . The electronic system will sense, react, interpret, compute, act and control. It will do this using what is the equivalent of thinking...
During the early weeks of every Spring term, freshmen drift over to Memorial Hall in groups of five or six. They watch some entertainers perform for an hour or two--usually a mediocre hour or two; they empty countless kegs of beer, and drift away--in the same groups of five...
Composer Valentino Bucchi's measured music was a careful reflection of medieval modes. Massine, reported Rome's // Messaggero, has "knelt to the spirituality of his subject." The local clergy was, on the whole, fascinated. The next day Monsignor Luigi Piastrelli commended the perform ance from his pulpit...
Whatever this tableau's specific origins, the basic trouble is the Corporation's rule forbidding groups that grace their name with Harvard to perform on commercially sponsored shows. Why the administration maintains this rule is still none too clear, except that it obviously involves fear for Harvard's reputation. Perhaps the Corporation is afraid that people will suspect it of selling the use of Harvard to purveyors of soap and toothpaste. Why anyone, however, should confuse a student group's appearance on radio with official endorsement of its sponsor any more than he confuses football sportscasts with official endorsement...